THE DESCENDANTS 
OF THE PIONEERS 



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BY EDWARD S. SHARPE, M. D., 

PRESIDENT 



PAPER READ BEFORE THE SALEM COUNTY 
HISTORICAL SOCIETY ON MARCH lOth, J 908. 



THE DESCENDANTS 
OF THE PIONEERS 



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BY EDWARD S. SHARPE, M. D., 

PRESIDENT 



PAPER READ BEFORE THE SALEM COUNTY 
HISTORICAL SOCIETY ON MARCH lOth, J908. 






Tb© Society 



THE DESCENDANTS OF THE PIONEERS 



A brief genealogical sketch of the de- 
scendants of the Pioneers, may not be un- 
interesting to tlie members of this Society 
whose attention I crave, while reading 
the result of my investigation into this 
subject. 

We have seen during the last quarter 
of the seventeenth century, from 1675 to 
1700, or thereabouts, the arrival, settla- 
ment, social and domestic customs, in- 
cluding marriages and deatlis, of those 
early colonists and their families; a re- 
view that causes serious reflection oii 
the brevity of ! uman life, when we con- 
sider that in the comparatively brief 
space of twenty-five years, not only all 
its elder and some of its younger mem- 
bers liad been called away by death, but 
other prominent individuals, associated 
with them in oublic and private, obeyed 
ti.e summons of inexorable fate, and 
made tlieir adieus to life and the world. 

John Pledger. Sr., Hippolytus LeFevre, 
Sr.. William Braithwaite, Sr., and their 
wives; Jolm Worlidge, husband of Ann 
LeFevre, Joseph Pledger, elder son of 
John. Sr., Ilatmah Carle, wife of Hip- 
polyus LeFevre. Jr.. Thomas Jolmson, 
brotlier of Richard, and Maning Braith- 
waile, son of William Braithwaite, Si'., 
by his last wife. Joan, having joined th'> 
majority In about tlie period mentioned 
above, leaving only Richard Johnson. 
Tdppolytus LeFevre, Jr., William Braith- 
waite. Jr. and Ann I..eFevre Worlidge, to 
perpetuate families and namos now nearly 
extmct. 

The dates of demise of those who suc- 
cumbed, have beer, already given, in a 
provioii.s paper on the Pioneers, of which 
tliis is :i continMallon. Richard Johnson. 



wlio when he emigrated was a young 
unmarried man. being the only one of the 
original immigrants arriving before Fen- 
wick, who outlived the seventeenth cen- 
tury, dying January 1719- 20, surviving 
his wife, Mary Groves, wliom he married 
in 1782, five years, she having passed away 
in 1714. The issue of this marriage was 
three children, Robert, Elizabotli and 
Ann. The son Robert married in 171? 
Margaret, widow of Joseph Sayre. They 
.had four children, viz: Robert. Mary, 
Ann and Elizabeth, who were all minors, 
when their father died, at the early age 
of thirty-four years, in 1728. His widow, 
Margaret, survived him two years, dying 
in 1730, agid thirty-seven. 

Elizabeth, the youngest daugliter of 
Richard and Mary Grover Johnson, be- 
came the second wife of John Picrson. 
By his first, he was father of John Pier- 
son, "who was the settled minister of 
the Episcopal Church of St. Johns in 
Salem" from 1733 to 1747. "He, and his 
wife and two children, lie in the churcn 
yard." (Shourds.) 

Elizabeth Johnson Pierson. widow, made 
her will in 1720, in which she names her 
daughter, Elizabeth, under sixteen, sole 
heiress of real and personal estate. To 
live with John and Sarah Darkin, until 
she is sixteen years old. "Real estate 
250 acres received from father Richard 
Johnson." Executors, brother Robert 
Johnson and John Parkins. (Wills Feb. 
11, P. 160.) 

The Rev. John Pierson married Anna, 
oldest dau.^'llter of Mary and Joseph Col •■ 
man, son of Henry Coleman, merchant 
of Coleman street. London. Mary, tl" 
wife of the- latter, was tlie dnnghter of 



Joseph Piilgeou, of London, England, who 
had married Mary, daughter of Robert 
Turner, an eminent merchant of Dublin. 
Ireland, who emigrated to America and 
settled in Philadelphia in 1683. Mary, the 
second daughter of Joseph and Mary 
Coleman, and sister of Anna Pierson, was 
the first wife of Joseph Sharp, of Piles 
grove, Salem county, N. J., his second 
being Grace Smith, Jr., of Mannington, 
said county. 

Ann, daughter of Richard and Mary 
Grover Johnson, born 1687, in 1714 mar- 
ried Alexander Grant of Salem. His resi- 
dence was tills very house, wherein is the 
hall of Ihe Salem County Historical So- 
ciety built before his marriage, probably 
about 1710. They had two children, Anna 
and Barbara Grant. The latter died un- 
married. Anna, the elder, married Sam- 
uel Fenwick Hedge, great great grand- 
sou of John Fenwick. Shortly after their 
marriage, they removed to Greenwica, 
Cumberland county, N. J. 

Shourds in his valuable "History and 
Genealogy of Feuwick's Colony," relates 
that Robert, son of Robert and Margaret 
Sayrc Jonnson, his father having died 
when he was young, lived some tin-.'-; 
with his uncle, John Pledger, Jr., in 
Mannington. to learn the farming busi- 
ness. Upon attaining his majority, he 
married Margaret Morgan, of Delaware 
county, Pennsylvania, who died when 
only tweiity-three years of age, leavini? 
a daughter, Margaret, who, in 1779 ma'- 
ried Andrew Sinnickson, of L. P. Neck, 
and tlius becain(> ancestress of one of the 
most prominent and influential I'amilies 
in the State of New Jersey. 

Robert Johnson's second wife, whom 
he married in 17G7. was his cousin, Jane 
(Jibbon, daughter of Nicholas and Ann 
Gibbon, the issue of which union, beinfj 
one son, Robei't Gibbon Johnson, who ac- 
cjuired quite a reputation as a local his 
torian. He resided in Salem, in the large 
brick mansion on the East side of Mar- 
l:i'l street, wliich ho built just one hun- 



dred year ago, now owned and occupied 
by his grandson, Henry Johnson, who is, 
I believe, the 'ast male survivor bearing 
the surname of this ancient family. 

As a portion of the above quotation 
from "Shourds' History" is probably in- 
correct, it, together with the following, 
which introduces the Pledger family, will, 
for a short time engage our attention. 
Our historian tells us further that "Mary. 
daughter of Robert Johnson, Sr., and 
Margaret Sayre Johnson, married John 
Pledger, of Mannington; they had issue 
one son and a daughter, Joseph Pledger, 
their son, after he arrived at the age of- 
twenty-one, left his native county am) 
settled in North Carolina. Catharine 
Pledger, thier daughter, married John 
Ewing." In the will of John Pledger, 
2d, dated December 30, 17-13, the legatees 
named are "First, wife" (neither chris- 
tian nor maiden name given), "second, 
Edmond Weatherby and Martlia. his wife; 
"Tihrd, son-in-lav.' (was it intended for 
step-son ?) Joseph Siddons;" "daughter 
Elizabeth Casperson," grandchildren. 
Joseph, Sarah and Dorothy Pledger," 
"grandchildren, John, Joseph and Pledg- 
er Redstrake." "Executors, son-iu-law. 
Edmond Weatherby and daugiiter, Mar- 
tha." "Witnesses, Dan. Mestayor. Wil- 
liam Swift. George Trenchard." "Pro- 
bate Jan. 4, 174.!." Personal estate £582.00, 
about $2700 of our currency. 

Beside the children named above he 
had a so.a. John Pledger, 3d, also called 
Junior, who predeceased him, having died 
a few months before his fatlier's will whs 
written. He was the father of tlie tlireo 
graiidchildren E'ledger named in tliat in- 
strument, and also mentioned in his own 
will dated July 28, 1743, and probated Au- 
gust 10, 1743, jn v>hich he names "wife 
Mary Pledger," who. with his father, 
was appointed executi-ix; "son Josepli 
Pledger," "daughter Sarah Pledger" and 
"daughter Doroth.v Pledger." "Witness- 
es, Wm. Pennock. Jeams Jolinson- and 
Mary Vaughn." Executors, confirmei 




Alexander Grant House, Salem, New Jersey 



August 15, 1743. Inventory of personal 
property £350.14 or about $1750 dollars 'n 
our curreucy. 

The wife, Mary Pledgor, referred to by 
John Pledger, Jr. (3), in his will, was 
born Mary Johnson, eldest of the three 
daughters of Robert and Margaret Sayro 
Johnson, and sister of Robert Johnson, 
Jr., who, as we have quoted from 
Shourds, "lived some time with his uncle 
in Mannington to learn the farming busi- 
ness;" now John Pledger, 3d, did not, as 
far as we know, ever live and carry on 
the business of a farmer in Mannington, 
liis residence, at the time of his death, 
and where he made his will, as therein 
stated was "John Pledger. Jr., of the 
township of Alloways Creek, Yeoman," 
and if Robert Johnson lived with the 
owner and occupant of the "Netherland 
Farm" we have been unable to deter- 
mine the exact relatioiiship subsisting 
between them; that he was, however, a 
brother-in-law of John Pledger, 3d, named 
above, is confirmed by the will of Rich- 
ard Sayre, made in 1736. He was one ^f 
the two sons of Joseph and Margaret 
Sayre, the other being Joseph, their 
mother, Margaret, after the death of her 
husband, Joseph Sayre, having, as we 
have stated, married Robert Johnson, 
1st. In his will. Richard Sayre speaks 
of Mary Pledger, as "my sister Marj', 
now the wife of John Pledger, Jr." 

Althougn John Pledger 2d omitted the 
christian name of the wife who survived 
him, in his last will, we know it was 
Hannah, from the following report, viz: 

"1745, May 2S." Award of Arbitrators. 
David Davis, David Brandreth and James 
Mason, as to what sum of money "Han- 
nah Pledger" shall receive yearly from- 
Edmond Weatherbj , exu., of John Pledg- 
er, in lieu of her right of dower. They 
award her £11.0.0 a year. She to release 
to said Weathorby all her right of dower 
in the "Netherland Farm." (Salem Coun- 
ty Clerk's Office.) 

The "Netherland Farm," in Manning- 



ton, across Salem creek, now called "the 
little creek,' 'owned by Preston Carpen- 
ter, and formerly part of the large land- 
ed estate of the late Col. Robert Gibbon 
Johnson, has retained its name for more 
than two hundred years, as sliown by tlio 
following assignment, viz: 

"1690, July 31." Assignment of John 
Oilman Junior, of New Salem, to Hugh 
Hutchings, of the preceding, in exchange 
for his claim in the farm called Nether- 
land Farm, belonging to John Pledger, 
of Salem." (Archives Salem Deeds, No. 
5.) 

The ancient brick dwelling house, still 
standing on this property, a fine example 
of the architecture of early colonial 
times, was erected by John Pledger, Jr.. 
In 1727. It is still in a remaikable state 
of preservation, and good to stand for 
a century or two longer. 

John Pledger 2d was twice married. 
His first wife is supposed by some to 
have been Dorothy Roberts, sister of 
Henry Roberts Junior, who in his will, 
dated 1713, Nov. 9 makes "cousin John 
Pledger Junior" residuary legatee. He 
was born in the year 16S0, and twenty- 
three years later, had a wife whose chris- 
tian name was Dorothy, as tlie following 
deed shows, viz: 

"1730, April 30 Do. John Pledger, of 
Manneton, Salem county. Yeoman, and 
wife, Dorothy, to Hugh Middleton, of 
Berreton, said county, gentleman, and 
wife. Mary, for 214 acres, with 10 a. high- 
way allowance on Salem and Mehoppings 
creeks." (.\rehive« Salem Deeds. No. 7.) 

He probably had resided on the Nether- 
land Farm for more than twenty years 
before buililing the large substantial 
brick mansion alroody referred to. Bere- 
ton Fields, the residence of his father, 
John Pledger 1st, having passed into the 
possession — as sliown in the above deed — 
of Hugh Middleton. through his wife, 
Mary, widow of Joseph Pledger, who died 
in the year 1697. 

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at the time of his death, was in Allo- 
ways Creek township, owned real estate 
also in Maunington, as he leaves a plan- 
tation in the laiter township to liis two 
daughters, Sarah and Dorothy, to be 
equally divided between them, when they 
reached the age of twenty-one years. To 
his father he bequeathed a suit of clothes 
and a hat, viz; "To father John Pledger 
new suit of broad cloth and new beaver 
hat," also " to Mary Vaughn a milch 
cow, if she lives until 18 years old with 
my wife." "To wife, Mary Pledger, all 
personal estate (except what is herein- 
after bequeathed.)" To son Joseph Pledg- 
er, plantation where I now dwell, at 21 
years." 

All his children, at the time of his de- 
mise, were under age, two of whom, 
Joseph and Dorothy, we are able to trace 
in after years, but Sarah is lost, we find 
no further reference to her, in the rec- 
ords. From the christian name of his 
daughter, Dorothy, we infer he was a 
son of the first wife of John Pledger 2d, 
and that she was named after his mother. 

It would be ii'teresting to know if there 
were any children of John Pledger 2d, 
by his wife Hannah, who survived him. 
From the fact tliat the sons and daugh- 
ters inentioned in liis will, were already 
married with families of tlieir own, the 
inference is tliat they were all issue of 
the first marriage. Martha was the wife 
of Edmund Weatherby. Joseph Siddons 
(if a son-in-law, who as we have said 
might have been a step-son) married a 
daughter, name not given, viz: "Son-in- 
law Joseph Siddons to have privilege ot 
occupying the tan yard lot on above 
in-emises for 7 years, without charge." 
He leaves to his wife £.'')0, and to his 
daughter, Elizabeth Casperson, .C.^i.0.0, and 
"to grandchildren, John. Joseph an'i 
Pledger Redstrake, £."1.0.0. eacli at 21 
years." 

Now Elizabeth Casperson was the 
mother of the three Redstrake boys, hav- 
ing before her marriage to Anthony Cas- 



person Oct. 15, 1739, been the wife oi 
John Redstrake, the immigrant, and thl.s 
brings us in touch with the Redstrake 
family. 

We first meet with the name of John 
Restrake in connection with the settle- 
ment of the estate of Alexander Dever- 
enx, in June 1711. Secondly, as John 
Restrake, a creditor of Gunnin.g Bedford, 
of "Pens Neck." Salem county, who died 
during the first week of February 1724- 
25. Thirdly, as John Readstrake. making 
an inventor.v of the personal estate of 
Thomas Vickery, of Penn's Neck, Salem 
county, September 23, 1725, in conjunction 
with Rainey Van Hirst, and finally, as 
John Readstrake, administrator of the 
estate of Samuel Chandler, .lune '^, 1728. 
This is all the information derived from 
the Archives, the remainder being foun.i 
in his will written December 17th, 1737. 
In that instrument he spells his name 
Redstrake. and those of his sons, also 
his wife. Restrake, all spelled alike: 
"Will of John Redstrake." "of Penn's 
Neck, in the Western Devision of New 
Jersey, this seventeenth day of Decem- 
ber, 1737." Names:— Loving wife, Eliza- 
beth Redstrake; sons:— John Redstrake. 
Joseph Redstrake and Pledger Red- 
strake. He leaves "sister-in-law Mary 
Pledger fifty pounds." "Unto my cousin, 
that is to say unto Rebecca Johnson, 30 
pounds of current money." Wittnesses:" 
—"George Fling, John Richmond. Rebec- 
ca Richmond. John Pledger." 

There is a tradition, that when the Im- 
migrant arrived at the mouth of the As- 
samhocking River, now Salem creek, he 
determini^d to seat himself on the island. 
"Restracks Island." that for two cen- 
turies has borne liis name, and with 
bricks brought from England, built the 
lar.go sub.stantial house in which most of 
his descendants have been born, and 
which stood unchanged, until submerged 
and consumed, within the last twenty- 
five or thirty years. 

I regret the limits of this paper pre- 



elude transcribing tlie entire will, from 
which the preceding extracts have been 
taken, as it embodies tlie character of 
the man, a mental and moral portrature 
drawn upon the parchment beneath its 
written lines. We there see an opulent, 
influential citizen of strong mind with 
laudable intentions, honorable and just 
toward all, a fond husband and parent, 
beloved by liis family, into which liis last 
thoughts reverted as the final hour ap- 
proaclied. and to whom, in the disposi- 
tion of liis large estate, he exliibits lib- 
eral, impartial and benevolent qualities 
of the human heart. 

In case his sons sliould die without legal 
heirs, he disposes of the property de- 
vised to them in the following manner, 
viz:— "I give, devise all and singular my 
aforesaid lands and tenements unto my 
loving wife, Elizabeth Redstrake, and to 
her heirs and assigns forever." "Item." 
"My will is that my loving wife shall 
have, enjoy, the uses, profits of all my 
estate whatsoever and wlieresoever for 
and in satisfaction for bringing up- my 
three cliildren until they come to their 
several ages as aforesaid, and that she 
enjoy the whole profits until the time 
aforesaid." 

The solicitude expressed for tlie "bring- 
ing up" of his sons, miglit warrant the 
assumption that they were the offspring 
of anotlier marriage— the wife and 
mother's interest and affection being ap- 
parently ignoreil— did we not know it was 
a testanr.'niary fashion of the times. 

John Pledger 'M makes a similar pro- 
vision in his will, viz: — "To wife Mary 
Pledger all presonal estate (except what 
is hereinafter bequeathed) all rents ana 
privileges of real estate till .son Josepu 
is 21 years old. provided slie brmgs up 
and maintains said son and daughters un- 
til 21 without ciiarge upon the estate; ' 
and Williim PiMin in the following- posi- 
scrii)t, imposes a similar obligation, viz: 
— "Postnipt in my own hand:"— 

".\.«! a further testimony of my love to 



my dear wife, I of my own mind give unto 
lier out of the rents of America, Vest 
Pensylvania £300 a year for her natur- 
all life, and for her care and charge over 
my children in their education, of which 
she knows my mind, as also that I de- 
sire they may settle at least in good part 
in America, wheie I leave them so good 
an interest to be for their inheritance 
from Generacon to Generacon, which the 
Lord p'serve and prosper. Amen." 

John Restrack left each of his three 
sons a large improved estate, probably 
not surpassed by any in the Colony, also 
valuable personal property, not forget- 
ting as we have seen his "loving wife.' 
His last thoughts were of her, viz: 

"I do before signing add this in my 
last will and testament, that my wife, 
Elizabeth Redstrake, shall have all the 
timber and wood piece of land I pur- 
chased of Josepn Gregory during her nat- 
ural life. ' 
"Te, dulcis conjux ****** ** 
Te, veniente die. te, decedente. canebat" 
And yet in less than two years from 
the commencement of her widowhood she 
married Anthony Casperson. Tiiere was 
nothing, however, unusual in that. It 
was the vogue in those days, not only to 
remarry, but to remarry soon. So soon, 
that now it might be deemed, with in- 
decerous haste. Then was a period of 
adventure and romance, not so remote 
from the age of chivalry as to-day. How 
nany of our ancient acquaintances, friends 
and relatives did likewise I Did not Mar- 
garet Sayre marry Robert Johnson 1st ? 
Did not Margaret Braitiiwaite marry 
Isaac Sharpe ? Did not her daughter, 
little Prudence, after the death of Josepn 
Moi-ris, marry -Andrew Bull ? Did not 
Mary Pledger, when left a widow by 
Jolin Ple<lger .Id. marry John Ewen ? Did 
not .\nn Worlidge. boi-n T,,eFevre. relivt 
of John Worlid;r>', marry William Brail I, - 
waite, Jr. ? and Mary Hurle.v. nee Pople- 
ton ! She did not wait a single year be- 
for she changed her name to Pledger. 



and very .soon asaiii to Middleton. wliile 
Isabella Redsti-ake remated first with 
James Smith and secondly with the Rev. 
Peter Vin Horn, and who as Mistress 
Isabella Dunlap. tos^rether witli the per- 
sonality at present under consideration, 
Mistress Elizabeth Pledger, owing to theso 
rapid changes "mutato nomine" came 
very near being actually unknown by 
their family names, with which, "in 
maiden meditation fancy free," they 
might have contemplated without appre- 
hension or regret the cegnomenal relin- 
quishment incident to the matrimonial 
state; and so that custom will continue, 
until "Parturiunt monies"— again moun- 
tains are in parturition, or Olympian Jove 
requires the services of Vulcan as an 
accouncheur. a parthenogenesis, the era 
of Gods and Titans, a fabulous propoga- 
tion, where a mother was superfluous. 
"Prolem sine matre creatam." Not until 
then will organized society dispense with 
iT/arital rites and consequent loss o? maid- 
en names, entailing on the puzzled gen- 
ealogist, forever, insuperable embarrass- 
ments, in attempting to trace the mai3 
as well as female descendants of import- 
ant families, and fix relationships, exist- 
ing but unknown, between friends and en- 
cmines, consanguineou.?, the same blood 
hut little changed, imperceptable at least 
to the naked eye, pulsating in each others 
hearts. 

We have referred to the death of Gun- 
ning Bedford in February 1724-2.5 as as- 
.«ociated with the meagre publislied rec- 
ords in whicli John Restrack 1st figures. 
The family had been settled in New Jer- 
sey for at least ten years previous to his 
demise as we find in the account of the 
estate of William Mall, 1715. June 30. 
Ounnin.g Bedford named as one to whom 
payment was made by the widow. Sarah 
Hall, execurtix. The name transmitted 
for more than one hundred years, through 
a unusually distinguished postei-ity, ren- 
ders pertinent the query, whether the 
poor Yeoman, dying during the inrlem- 



ent February of that far distant winter, 
whose personal estate amounted to only 
"£19.13, including a silver tumbler," was 
the American progenitor of that illus- 
trious line ? After his death we hear no 
more of his immediate family in this 
State, and it is not improbable, that the 
widow" and children removed to Delaware, 
upon the history of which State the 
names of his descendants were destined 
to be written large in social, civil and 
military affairs, comprising, a Governor, 
Gunning Bedford, an eminent Judge, 
Gunning Bedford, Jr., also in another 
State, a son of one of them. Gunning S. 
Bedford. A. M., M D., Professor of Ob- 
stetrics in the University of New York, 
and author of a standard work on that 
branch of medicine, published in 1S6.3, one 
of the best treatises on tliat important 
subject 1 have ever seen, invaluable as 
a work of reference in unusual and dif- 
ficult cases. What a contrast between 
the vast estate of that brilliant literateur, 
and the poverty of the Penn's Neck Yeo- 
man, who died one hundred years be- 
fore, leaving a personal estate, as w>"j 
have said of less than one hundred dol- 
lars, out of which the widow paid to the 
estate of the Rev. George Ross, of New 
Castle, he having died before the settle- 
ment. "£3.0.0 for trouble in crossing thj 
river and preaching his funeral sermon," 
for he died in the odor of sanctity. A doe- 
tor Tinny was the attending physician 
being paid "for medicines and visits." 

We have no knowledge of the lives, sub- 
sequent to their father's death, of Joseph 
and Pledger Redstreak. but the eldest 
son. John, married, April 28. 17.52. Isabella 
Dunlap, by whom he had children, thf 
eldest being John Redstreak 3d. The widow 
Isabella. aViout twenty years after her 
first marriage i e:— February 21. 1774. wed- 
ded James Smith, a grandson of John 
Smith, of Smithfield. and her third natri- 
monial venture was with the Rev. Peter 
Van Horn, a distinguished Baptist clergy- 
man, settled in Salem from 17S4 to 17.S9, 



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when he died September 10, of the latter 
year. He, aud liis wife, Isabella, lie side 
by side, under the large elm, in the gi-ave 
yard of the old Baptist Cluirch, demolish- 
ed many years ago. It was built duriuti- 
his incumbency at a cost of £1500 about 
six thousand dollars. The lot was bought 
of widow, Mary Dunlap, who left her es- 
tate to the church, as the following epi- 
taph states: 

"Here lays all that was mortal of 
Mary Dunlap, widow, who by her last 
will aud testament did devise and be- 
queath all her real estate aud most 
of her personal estate to the Baptist 
Church in the Town of Salem. She 
was daughter of James and Elizabeth 
Wiggens. Born October 1725. Depart- 
ed this life January 1797. Aged 71 
years." 

"Corruption earth and worms 
Shall but refine the flesh, &c., &c." 
Captain James Dunlap, the progenitor 
of the Dunlap family of West Jersey, 
came from Delaware, aud settled iu 
Peun's Neck. In the year 1725 his name 
was included in the list of creditors of 
Feuwick Adams, Fenwick's Grove. Salem 
county, gent. In 1730 he bought 1295 acres 
of land iu Piltsgrove. and January 21. 
1746 married Ann Hunter. He died Jaii- 
uary 16, 1780. The family wei-e prominent 
Baptists in early Colonial days, and the 
descendants under various other names, 
are numerous and occupy high social 
positions to-day. ■ Thomas Bradway— son 
of Aaron Bradway and his second wife. 
Sarah Smith— married Isabella Dunlap: 
their eld'.'st daughter, Sarah .Ann. mar- 
ried John S. Wood, of Jericho. Cumber- 
laud county; Eliza Bradway. another 
daughter, married Judge Dubison, of 
Natcheg, Miss. The late Thomas Brad- 
way. of L. P. Neck, near Penn.sville, was 
1 believe the only son. 

James Smitli. son of Daniel Smith ami 
grandson of John Smith, of Smithfield. 
was twice married. By his first wife he 
Imd three sons. .John. ■nt'n.i:imiu and 



James. The latter married, when mil- 
lionaires were not as numerous as at 
present, a sister of Jacob Ridgway, the 
Philadelphia Croesus. He took his 
brother-in-law into partnership in the 
shipping business, the firm name being 
Smith and Ridgway. James Smith mar- 
ried secondly February 21, 1771, Isabella 
Redstreak, uee Dunlap. They had two 
children, Edward and Mary Smith, the 
latter married Into the Bacon family, of 
Bacon's Neck, Cumberlaudd county. 

As we have already hinted, the two 
previous names of Elizabeth Casperson 
i. e. : — Pledger and Redstrake might read- 
ily have been forgotten. She being only 
referred to as Casperson, without any 
allusion to her maiden name or that by 
her first marriage in her father's will. 
so might Isabella Van Horn's original 
marital union have been consigned to 
oblivion, but for the indirect manner 'ii 
which John Redstreak 3d refers to her as 
his mother, viz:— 

"John Redstreak, administrator of Isa 
bella Van Home, deceased , June terra 
li)23 and filed, Daniel Garrison. Register." 
"Item." "1823 December 24," "Cash paid 
Wm. N. Jeffers for opinion on "mother's 
will." $5.00." 

John Redstreak 3d was born June 11. 
1770. Married Sarah VaiiCulen February 
6. 1792. She died June 10. ISOG. One daugh- 
ter was the issue of this marriage, Sarah- 
Smith Redstreak. who married William 
.\. Dick, and is referred to in her father's 
will as "my daughter Sarah Dick." His 
second wife was Ruth Johnson. He died 
in the year 1825. "Will of John Red- 
streak. of the township of Lower Penn's 
Neck, in the county of Salem and State 
of New Jersey," "this sixteenth day of 
June, in the' year of our Lord one thous- 
and, eignt hundred and twenty-five." 
Names:— "Wife Ruth Redstreak." "young- 
est child, Isabella Redstreak." "my 
daughter Sarah Dick." "my granddaugh- 
ter, Mary Robinson." "Cliildreii, James 
Redstreak. Mary .Ann Roilstreak. Eliz.i 




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